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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Go listen! It's a podcast that should be in every gamer's listening rotation. Smart discussion, funny, and flies by in the blink of an eye!

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

With the chance you forget what you were doing last time and muck it up somehow.

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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This might be a hot take, but if you don't want games to be overtaken by AI slop, you have to choose not to play games that spotlight it. Companies don't care that you wag your finger, they care that you withhold your money and attention.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Sorry for the lack of new episodes. For a variety of reasons, we're going on hiatus for the winter. Looking to recharge, recalibrate, and return in the spring.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This is unexpected, but cool. Would be interested to see Atari continue down this path of salvaging obscure games and giving them new life.

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Nightmare On Elm StreetsAJed @streetsajed.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Do I happen to know anybody who has experience in video editing, loves video games and gaming history, and would be interested in launching a YouTube channel with me? If you aren't that person, but know someone who might be, please pass it along. DM's are open to discuss.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

They're donors to this enshittification of the East Wing with that gaudy, gilded ballroom. They're not commenting because they can't bite the hand.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The PS2 is 25 in America today. I have a weird relationship with it. It came out a year before I moved across the country. During its lifespan, I got married, went to school, and had twins. I didn’t play much on it, so I don’t have a lot of connection to it.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Yes, you keep posting this. Explain, please.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Don’t know who that is or what that means.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Buying ActiBlizz might end up being the worst move X-Box ever made, for them and the industry.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

But we know money is an issue with all but a select few. And in that case, I think it makes more sense to spend more to have a chance at making more on a platform that isn’t in a constant state of self-immolation.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Not saying what you said isn’t true. But if I’m a smaller dev and I can spend $10K for a PS5 kit or $2K for XB, I’d rather take my shot at a bigger target, especially one that doesn’t look like it’s committed to a course of self-sabotage.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Not saying it is a beeline. But I am saying the pool of potential customers (for consoles) is larger. And right now, XB has nothing but bad press lately. It’s just one more thing to make it look like jumping aboard a sinking ship.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

But PS5 outsells XSX by current estimates 3/1. There’s a larger pool of potential customers to make back that up-front cost on PlayStation. XB is smaller, they’re increasingly consumer-hostile, and now the profit margin for a new dev has gotten smaller.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The genericized use of "AI" as a marketing buzzword for generative AI is doing so much discourse damage especially among a certain generations of the least tech savvy people to ever be exposed to technology regularly. That's the power of words on an illiterate society, baybee

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

New episode! @erikslader.bsky.social guest hosts with @streetsajed.bsky.social to discuss the evolution of #Mario. Part 1 covers his beginnings in Donkey Kong through the games of the N64. #videogames #gaming #Nintendo

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The Evolution of Mario, Part 1 w/Erik Slader

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Due to circumstances beyond control, today's planned episode has been postponed until next Monday. Sorry, friends.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Two price hikes on the console in a year, and now increasing the cost of Game Pass. Are they TRYING to kill the brand?

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

One of the worst companies in gaming forms a Voltron of crap by selling to Jared Kushner's private equity group and the Saudi investment fund. This is only going to get more terrible for the industry.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Subtly downgrade a band Cubic Zirconia Jam

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New episode, and we’re talking about the best and worst controllers to come with the console. #videogames #gaming #atari #nintendo #sega #xbox #playstation

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Best and Worst Controllers

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I'm not one for custom controllers, but this is awesome.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Promoting my own! We look at the history of video games, going one console generation at a time on a topic. Just dropped a new episode today!

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Gaming always needs more women’s voices to be heard, both in the game, holding a controller, or at the desk doing the coding. Glad I could give you a chance to do these ladies proud.

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Noel [from GigaBoots] 🏳️‍⚧️ @gigaboots.com · 08/09/2025

I saw all our videos bomb and could not find out why despite a LOT of searching and contemplation. Turns out, YouTube threw a killswitch on ALL OF YOUTUBE called Restricted Mode, and it keeps you from seeing the VAST MAJORITY OF VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE. Check your YT account & turn off Restricted Mode!!

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Dude hasn’t lived up to his legacy in decades, has expressed some looking-down-the-nose views on gaming, and is overall too old and set in his ways. This needs fresh eyes and a fresh mind.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Getting some new console hardware today. A Polymega. My retro-gaming capabilities just went through the roof.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Hard to be excited when we know nothing whatsoever and all we've got to go on is buzzwords, but ... here's to hoping.

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Revived Game Publisher Acclaim Is Teasing A "Big" Announcement For Next Week

"Transmission incoming"

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

With Silksong now confirmed coming out (and in 2 weeks), what takes its place as the game that refuses to come out? Elder Scrolls 6? Beyond Good & Evil 2? A full release for Star Citizen? Okay, maybe not that last one.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

NEW: During an interview at the Xbox booth on the Gamescom show floor, I attempted to ask a veteran Obsidian developer for their thoughts on making video games at Microsoft amid layoffs and widespread criticism over the company's links to Israel. I was immediately shut down.

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Microsoft shuts down questions about layoffs and Israel ties at Gamescom 2025

Microsoft won't comment. Xbox staff aren't allowed.

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you! I feel the same way in return. Absolutely amazing guest, can’t wait for the episode to come out and everyone can hear it!

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First Gen Gamers @firstgengamerspod.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Sorry, no, you're a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate. Eat the loss. If people can't afford it now, they can't afford it when it's even more.